Work and Workers
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The Phony Left: Pawns in a Game It Doesn’t Understand
Few communities in America prospered as much as Texarkana during President Joe Biden’s four years in the White House, and few communities were more ungrateful than the voters of that region, which is anchored around twin cities spread across the Texas-Arkansas border. In 2024, in spite of economic growth under a Democratic president at rates
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The Future of Work is the Future of Politics
When we spoke on the phone recently, Gluesenkamp Perez offered a vision of neighborliness and communal self-sufficiency inspired, she told me, by the writer Wendell Berry. “You don’t need a planning commission if you don’t covet your neighbor’s land,” as she put it. The line distills her view that people deserve control over their communities,
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Work: Alienation or Soulcraft
Matthew Crawford's Phronetic Philosophy The idea of agency I have tried to illustrate in this book is different. It is activity directed toward some end that is affirmed as good by the actor, but this affirmation is not something arbitrary and private. Rather, it flows from an apprehension of real features of the world. This